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Coming now to the first question, why do manufacturers prefer the 
American :— 
Ist. Because it is a better tobacco, and they get better and more satis- 
factory results. 
The reason it is better is because the American handles his tobacco: 
properly and develops it, and gets the best results obtainable, and we can get 
the same or approximate results, for an analysis of the two tobaccos does not 
show any insuperable difficulties in the Queensland grown. 
2nd. He gets exactly what he buys and does not find a lot of rubbish and 
undesirable tobacco mixed in with it that would destroy its value if put in their 
product. The American handler takes this out, and most likely puts it about his 
fruit trees where it will do most good. They also put the tobacco into wooden 
hogsheads, in weight from 700 lb. to 1,400 lb., where it retains its flavour, and 
the further changes enhances the quality. All of these things must come in 
time if the local industry is to become valuable and permanent. That every 
department of trade seeks excellence is probably more true of tobacco than. 
most things, and it is therefore necessary for our growers to use their best 
efforts to get the best results. Shortly, the other States of the Commonwealth, 
will be our competitors, and it will be a survival ot the fittest, and we should 
survive, and it rests with the grower whether we shall or not. 
3rd. The tobacco received from the United States is in a more advanced 
stage towards manufacturing, and can be worked with less trouble and expense.. 
This should not discourage the Queensland growers. While the above is 
true, the margin of profit is sufficient to cover this, and in time, if the grower 
tries to advance, he will attain this also. We have here the testimony of good 
judges that Australian-grown tobacco can be brought to a degree of excellence 
equal to Kentucky, and this means painstaking effort. 
RICE-GROWING IN THE LOGAN DISTRICT, AND ITS 
PREPARATION FOR MARKET. 
By FRED. WM. PEEK, Loganholme. 
INTRODUCTION AND EARLY CULTIVATION. 
In writing up this article (by special request), I will endeavour to make 
the information contained as intelligible as possible to the ordinary farmer: 
and agriculturist. Of the value of rice there can be no two expressions of 
opinion, as this cereal forms the chief food supply of over one-half of the 
entire human race, and certainly there is not another product or cereal that, 
commercially or economically, obtains the same value as rice. 
_ The varieties of rice to be obtained from the various countries where rice 
forms one of the staple crops for food supply, are innumerable, running into 
several hundred varieties, particularly where itis grown largely, as in India, China, 
- Japan, Siam, West Indies, and in other parts of the world, and it has been 
found that local names have been given to rice of the same variety and quality. 
For general purposes and distinction, rice has been classified into three distinct 
varieties or classes. These are known to us as the “ Aus,” or upland rice ; the 
“Aman,” or swamp rice; and the “ Boro,” another swamp rice, or a variety 
requiring inundation, warm climate, and rapid growth, and producing a large 
coarse grain, but which, so far as I have been able to ascertain, has not been 
tried or cultivated in Queensland up to the present. The portion of the 
Logan district where rice is now being extensively cultivated is known as 
Pimpama Island, which is situated in the south-eastern portion of this State, in 
153 degrees east longitude and between 27 and 28 degrees south latitude, and 
is approached from Brisbane by means of the South Coast Railway as far as. 
